Environmentally Relevant Aspects of Nanomaterials in Products at the End-of-life Phase

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 638-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Gazsó ◽  
Daniela Fuchs ◽  
Sabine Greßler ◽  
Iris Gruber ◽  
Florian Part ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Drug Safety ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
Scientific Freedom ◽  
Life Phase ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Insight Into

This section is meant to give readers an insight into the emerging field of nanotechnologies and risk regulation. It informs and updates readers on the latest European and international developments in nanotechnologies and risk regulation across different sectors (e.g., chemicals, food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals) and policy areas (e.g., environmental protection, occupational health and consumer product, food and drug safety). The section analyzes how existing regulatory systems deal with new kinds of risks and reviews recent regulatory developments with a focus on how best to combine scientific freedom and technological progress with a responsible development and commercialization of nanotechnologies.

How to Avoid International Trade Conflicts

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Jaspers
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Drug Safety ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
Scientific Freedom ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Trade Conflicts ◽  
Insight Into

This section is meant to give readers an insight into the emerging field of nanotechnologies and risk regulation. It informs and updates readers on the latest European and international developments in nanotechnologies and risk regulation across different sectors (e.g., chemicals, food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals) and policy areas (e.g., environmental protection, occupational health and consumer product, food and drug safety). The section analyzes how existing regulatory systems deal with new kinds of risks and reviews recent regulatory developments with a focus on how best to combine scientific freedom and technological progress with a responsible development and commercialization of nanotechnologies.

To Label or Not to Label? – It's More than a Nano-sized Question

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel D’Silva ◽  
Diana Megan Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Drug Safety ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Consumer Product ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
Scientific Freedom ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Insight Into

This section is meant to give readers an insight into the emerging field of nanotechnologies and risk regulation. It informs and updates readers on the latest European and international developments in nanotechnologies and risk regulation across different sectors (e.g., chemicals, food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals) and policy areas (e.g., environmental protection, occupational health and consumer product, food and drug safety). The section analyzes how existing regulatory systems deal with new kinds of risks and reviews recent regulatory developments with a focus on how best to combine scientific freedom and technological progress with a responsible development and commercialization of nanotechnologies.

Nanomaterial Safety: The Regulators' Dilemma

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Jaspers
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Drug Safety ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Consumer Product ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
Scientific Freedom ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Insight Into

This section is meant to give readers an insight into the emerging field of nanotechnologies and risk regulation. It informs and updates readers on the latest European and international developments in nanotechnologies and risk regulation across different sectors (e.g., chemicals, food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals) and policy areas (e.g., environmental protection, occupational health and consumer product, food and drug safety). The section analyzes how existing regulatory systems deal with new kinds of risks and reviews recent regulatory developments with a focus on how best to combine scientific freedom and technological progress with a responsible development and commercialization of nanotechnologies.

scholarly journals Mechanisms of Environmental Regulation’s Impact on Green Technological Progress—Evidence from China’s Manufacturing Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1600
Author(s):  
Weijiang Liu ◽  
Mingze Du ◽  
Yuxin Bai
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Biased Technological Change ◽  
Chinese Manufacturing Industry

As the world’s largest developing country, and as the home to many of the world’s factories, China plays a crucial role in the sustainable development of the world economy regarding environmental protection, energy conservation, and emission reduction issues. Based on the data from 2003–2015, this paper examined the green total factor productivity and the technological progress in the Chinese manufacturing industry. A slack-based measure (SBM) Malmquist productivity index was used to measure the bias of technological change (BTC), input-biased technological change (IBTC), and output-biased technological change (OBTC) by decomposing the technological progress. It also investigated the mechanism of environmental regulation, property right structure, enterprise-scale, energy consumption structure, and other factors on China’s technological progress bias. The empirical results showed the following: (1) there was a bias of technological progress in the Chinese manufacturing industry during the research period; (2) although China’s manufacturing industry’s output tended to become greener, it was still characterized by a preference for overall CO2 output; and (3) the impact of environmental regulations on the Chinese manufacturing industry’s technological progress had a significant threshold effect. The flexible control of environmental regulatory strength will benefit the Chinese manufacturing industry’s technological development. (4) R&D investment, export delivery value, and structure of energy consumption significantly contributed to promoting technological progress. This study provides further insight into the sustainable development of China’s manufacturing sector to promote green-biased technological progress and to achieve the dual goal of environmental protection and healthy economic growth.

scholarly journals How Does the Arctic Council Support Conservation of Arctic Biodiversity?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 5042
Author(s):  
Tom Barry ◽  
Brynhildur Daviðsdóttir ◽  
Níels Einarsson ◽  
Oran R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Council ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
Insight Into

The Arctic Council is an intergovernmental forum promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among Arctic states, indigenous communities, and peoples on issues of common importance. The rising geo-political importance of the Arctic and the onset of climate change has resulted in the Council becoming a focus of increasing interest from both inside and beyond the Arctic. This has resulted in new demands placed on the Council, attracting an increasing number of participants, and instigating a period of transformation as Arctic states work to find a way to balance conflicting demands to improve the Council’s effectiveness and take care of national interests. This paper considers whether, during this time of change, the Council is having an impact on the issues it was formed to address, i.e., environmental protection and sustainable development. To provide answers, it looks at how the Council reports on and evaluates progress towards the implementation of recommendations it makes regarding biodiversity, how it identifies where activities have had impacts and uncovers the mechanisms through which they were successful, to provide an insight into how the Arctic Council can be an agent of change.

VII. Reason as a Mystagogue: Plutarch's View of God

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 145-166
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Rational Thinking ◽  
Decisive Influence ◽  
The Right ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
Insight Into

It is not only Alexander alone who has the right to be proud because he rules over many men, but no less right to be proud have they who have true notions concerning the gods. This quotation from a letter of Aristotle to Antipater (fr. 664 Rose) repeatedly occurs in the Plutarchan corpus. Plutarch clearly agreed. He regarded rational thinking about the gods as a human's most divine possession and as the most decisive influence on their happiness (De Is. et Os. 378C–D), and, as we have already seen, he adopted the Platonic phrase of ὁμοίωσις θεῷ (κατὰ τὸ δυνατόν) (‘assimilation to God [as far as possible]’) as the final end of life (see above, Chapter II, §1). In several ways, then, God is, as it were, the keystone that lends bearing power to the whole vault of Plutarch's philosophical thinking. A correct understanding of his thought therefore presupposes a deeper insight into his conception of God.

The Integration of Safety, Environmental and Quality Management Systems

2005 ◽  
pp. 304-316
Author(s):  
Werner Strauss ◽  
Klaus-Dieter Herrmann ◽  
Christoph Roenick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Quality Management Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Legal Security

This chapter will show how the demands on safety, environmental and quality management systems and their implementation into IT solutions have changed over the years and how such systems may appear in the future. Tangible business processes from the areas of occupational health and safety and environmental protection are described and a solution shown as to how these can be dealt with in a task-related way. Furthermore, there will be shown the connection between these business processes and the relevant legislation and the special benefits pertaining to legal security. Following this we describe how the linking of IT systems mentioned with scientific management systems with the primary processes of the company can be arranged. We also provide a look at the benefits arising from using such systems. The chapter concludes with a critical look at the future distribution and use of such integrated, process-oriented and legally based management systems. This chapter is particularly directed to companies that have set the carrying out of the material-related legal requirements and cost reduction through thought-out product use as a corporate objective. The concept of a networked corporate occupational health and safety and environmental protection information system and its implementation as a standard product will be introduced. Core components include basic data maintenance, modules for supporting decentralised specialised tasks and an efficient reporting system used at all locations and linked to an intranet.

Chapter 4 Recognizing the end of life phase

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Spathis ◽  
Helen E. Davies ◽  
Sara Booth ◽  
Max Watson
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Life Phase
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